Animal personalities: the advantage of diversity.
Animals do not always perform to the best of their abilities when faced with difficult choices. New findings on foraging honeybees show that co-existing strategies, where some individuals place more emphasis on accuracy and others on speed, can be advantageous to the colony in a variable environment.
Muller
Helene
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Research Centre for Psychology; School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
Chittka
Lars
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D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017753:Ecosystem; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D035264:Flowers